Love NPC in Nightmare Game - Chapter 37

Chapter 37: Doll’s House 11

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhou immediately rushed towards the other ghost.

The ghost’s body was too large, and there was no way to gather it up. Zhou Zhou looked at their trailing jiojio, and when the ghost opened its crack and dove down, he fiercely ran forward to try and knock it over.

But Zhou Zhou did not succeed, because the ghost was too big and his strength was not enough to knock it down.

Eddie and the others noticed that Zhou Zhou was repeatedly crashing into the ghost, although they didn’t know what he was trying to do, a few of them still went to help him.

The four of them successfully knocked the ghost down to the ground. When the ghost struggled to get up, its jiojio was thrust right towards Zhou Zhou.

The ghost’s upper body was exactly the same as the eliminated players, but its lower body was an irregular conical shape, and the bottom-most jiojio was the smallest area of the ghost’s body.

Zhou Zhou grabbed the ghost’s jiojio with both hands and started rolling it inwards. If he encountered a part that was too thick to roll up, he would stretch the ghost out, making it thinner after stretching, and then continue rolling.

The ghost sensed the danger and stretched out its two hands to try and grab Zhou Zhou, but at this time, Eddie, Xue Li and the others had already figured out Zhou Zhou’s intention and immediately went forward to hold the ghost’s arms in place.

In this way, a huge ghost was rolled up by Zhou Zhou into a ghost roll. Because it was too long, Zhou Zhou even folded the ghost roll in half.

Since the ghost would return to its original state if he let go, Zhou Zhou took the ghost’s two outstretched arms as ropes and tied them into a knot, so that even if he let go, the ghost could only remain in this shape.

Ke Li looked at the discarded ghost roll and sighed again that Zhou Zhou was indeed a natural black belt.

On the other side, the ghost was repeatedly punched by Heya, but it stubbornly crawled up every time and continued to rush forward with its large mouth open.

After Zhou Zhou finished rolling up this one, he immediately ran to the other side and started crashing into the ghost that was trying to attack Heya.

Xue Li and the others had experience now, and this time they also immediately helped Zhou Zhou crash into it together.

Although it was knocked down, this ghost was clearly more ‘lively’ than the other one. As Zhou Zhou tried to roll it up, it shook its body in an attempt to escape.

Zhou Zhou couldn’t roll up the ghost as smoothly as the previous one, so he could only roll a bit east, roll a bit west, then stretch and knead it, finally turning it into – a ghost ball.

Ke Li: “……”

Were they really here to clear an instance? And what kind of technique could make it so round? Zhou Zhou, were you a professional dough kneader before?

Eddie and Xue Li didn’t have as many comments as Ke Li. While helping Zhou Zhou, they didn’t forget to praise him.

Xue Li: “Zhou Zhou, how did you come up with this idea? You’re really awesome.”

Eddie also looked at the two differently shaped ghost rolls and ghost ball: “Big brother, can you keep bringing me along for instances next time?”

Zhou Zhou also felt that the ghost ball he had just made was very beautiful. He smiled shyly, then turned his gaze towards the ghosts appearing one after another in the hallway.

Eddie and Xue Li also looked over, the meaning in their eyes completely different from before. The three of them smiled slightly at the ghosts, then charged forward.

Only Ke Li was left standing there, extending his hand speechlessly as he watched the three of them. Weren’t they here to stall for time? Did these guys already forget?

Alvia and Heya had already crashed through the door. Indeed, there was a layer of concrete poured behind this door, and an ordinary person wouldn’t be able to get in without tools.

But when he turned his head, there was only Ke Li left behind.

Where were the others?

He discovered the three people in the hallway working together in unison. Two of them held the ghost in place while Zhou Zhou grabbed its jiojio and started rolling it up. But as he rolled and rolled, he would fold the ghost like kneading dough, then continue kneading, no, kneading the ghost, and finally knead out a very round ball.

Alvia: “……”

He couldn’t help smiling wryly. It seemed Zhou Zhou had found a new way to play.

Comparing it to the previous ghost ball, Zhou Zhou felt that this one was rounder, and he had even kneaded the ghost’s mouth, hands, and feet into the innermost part. Even left like this, the ghost wouldn’t be able to free itself for a while.

When they had already forgotten why they were here and were indulging in kneading dough, Alvia finally spoke up to remind them: “The door is open. Do you want to keep playing with ghosts here, or find the exit?”

The few of them only then remembered their original purpose and hurriedly finished kneading the ghost in their hands before running towards Alvia.

Eddie ran two steps, then turned back to look at the three balls and a spring roll-like ghost on the ground, feeling it was a waste to leave them like that. He picked up a ghost ball, then threw it down the hallway. The huge ghost ball rolled and crashed into a ghost.

The remaining two were also thrown at the ghosts in the same manner.

As for the final ghost roll, since it couldn’t roll, Eddie actually lifted it up with both hands. Then, when the ghost was about to reach him, he aimed and threw it straight into the ghost’s mouth. The ghost’s cracked mouth was open very wide, but the rolled-up ghost roll was also extremely large. With such a large unknown object stuffed into its mouth, the ghost couldn’t chew it even if it wanted to, and could only float towards Eddie with its mouth plugged.

Eddie quickly fled. He was the last to reach the doorway. Inside the door was a short flight of stairs, and after going up, there was another door about waist-high.

At this point, Zhou Zhou had already opened this small door and was bent over entering it. Eddie hurried to follow behind everyone.

Many ghosts surged in through the room’s door. The group quickly picked up their pace. As Eddie, who was at the back, entered the small door, the ghosts outside had also climbed the stairs and opened their cracked mouths.

Eddie hurriedly pulled his foot back, almost having it bitten off by the ghosts.

The ghosts started crowding into the small door again, but this time, as soon as the door less than a meter high was shut, the sounds from outside immediately disappeared, and no more ghosts pushed their way in after that.

The six of them finally arrived at the children’s playground. The bright and vivid colors inside made it seem like they had entered another world. There were no windows here, but the visibility was even brighter than outside. For a moment, they were not quite adapted to this level of brightness.

A group of cute-looking children were playing in the playground. Upon noticing the sudden arrival of these people, they all turned to look at them.

Xue Li blinked her eyes and was finally able to see the sights clearly. Over twenty children were sitting on the ground and slides, some hugging dolls, some eating candy, all blinking their big eyes curiously at them.

Although the children they’d seen the past two nights weren’t very friendly, suddenly seeing so many cute children still made one’s heart soften. How adorable, making one want to pinch their chubby little cheeks.

Zhou Zhou immediately noticed that aside from the dozen or so children from last night, there were a few he hadn’t seen before, and Xiao Jin was also among them.

He immediately waved and greeted Xiao Jin and the children from last night.

At this moment, Xiao Jin was sitting on the ground hugging that plump duck doll. Upon noticing Zhou Zhou, he suddenly widened his eyes, then pursed his lips as his eyes welled up with tears, but he held back from crying.

The other children reacted differently. The children who had experienced the horror story last night looked at Zhou Zhou as if seeing the great demon king himself, their faces showing obvious terror.

“Wuwuwu~” It was unknown which child started crying first, but the rest of the children soon followed one by one, even Xiao Jin who had been holding back tears was influenced by the atmosphere and started bawling.

Only a few children who hadn’t experienced last night’s horror story looked puzzled at their crying companions, some even not understanding why everyone was crying, but still joined in the crying.

In the end, all the children started crying, scaring Xue Li and the others into repeatedly backing away.

Xue Li: “What’s going on? What’s wrong with these children? We haven’t even said anything yet, why are they all crying?”

Ke Li: “Could it be that we scared them by suddenly barging in?”

Eddie looked at the large group of wailing children and felt his head grow big. He wasn’t good at coddling children.

Heya frowned and stepped back, though he knew his appearance was a bit fierce, it shouldn’t scare so many people, right?

Only Alvia stared at Zhou Zhou, who had quietly pulled his outstretched hand back. Noticing Alvia’s gaze, Zhou Zhou looked over innocently: “Why are they crying?”

Alvia didn’t answer, only continuing to stare at him. Zhou Zhou thought for a moment, then took a step forward, intending to comfort these children who looked very upset.

“Don’t cry anymore, okay? I’ll tell you a story.”

“Waaaaaah~”

After Zhou Zhou finished speaking, they cried even louder.

The others’ gazes shifted between Zhou Zhou and the children. It seemed that the children had started crying after Zhou Zhou waved his hand. And after Zhou Zhou spoke, they cried even harder.

But looking at Zhou Zhou’s delicate and tender appearance, they felt they must be mistaken. While it was possible for Heya to scare the children, how could Zhou Zhou?

Only Ke Li reacted, recalling the crying from the night before last and the ‘eerie voice’ from last night, could it be that it was all the effect of Zhou Zhou telling horror stories?

Zhou Zhou also seemed to realize that these children were crying because of him, but why? Not giving up, he took another step forward, causing the children to back away in fright, with one child even losing their balance and plopping down on their bottom.

The others finally confirmed their previous guess.

Xue Li asked in puzzlement: “Zhou Zhou, what did you do? Why are these children so afraid of you?”

Zhou Zhou shook his head, his eyes filled with bewilderment: “I really don’t know.”

Ke Li opened his mouth but ultimately didn’t say anything. Never mind, it was better if only he knew about this. If Zhou Zhou found out he had scared these children with his “profound” stories, he might blame himself.

Eddie looked at the group of crying children in front of them. One crying child was okay, but this many crying at once was really scary, to the point of going deaf.

He noticed the children were all staring at Zhou Zhou as they cried, so they were really afraid of him?

Eddie’s eyes shifted, and he stepped forward putting on a ferocious look: “Do you know where the exit tree hollow is?”

“Wawawa~”

Not a single person paid him any mind.

Eddie continued his act of ferocity. Although his appearance and ferocity didn’t match at all, his neon-colored hair combined with his deliberately exaggerated expression gave him a bit of a street punk vibe.

“If you don’t say, I’ll have that guy eat you all up.” Eddie said while pointing at Zhou Zhou.

Zhou Zhou: ?

Zhou Zhou widened his eyes and looked at Eddie in puzzlement, using his finger to point at himself: “Me?”

Eddie continued to the children in front of him: “Yes, him. He eats one child at a time, whether fried or steamed.”

“Wawawa~”

The clustered group of children cried and scattered. Just as everyone thought Eddie’s words might have been too much and scared the children away, or that the children simply didn’t know where the exit was, they surprisingly each grabbed a crayon from the corners and went to the wall.

“What are they doing?” Xue Li asked in puzzlement.

“No idea, it looks like they’re going to draw on the wall?” Ke Li wasn’t sure either.

Zhou Zhou stood alone in the back, pouting with a dejected look.

Why were the children afraid of him? He only wanted to be friends with everyone, but ended up scaring a large group of children into tears, with even some he had never met before being scared into crying as well.

Perhaps it was because he didn’t know how to interact with such young children, Zhou Zhou felt a bit sad.